mean greens; Toxic spinach, tainted tomatoes- the produce aisle is getting scarier and scarier.

Byline: Ginny Graves

Thai food. For years even the words were enough to make me feel slightly queasy. My formative encounter with a bacteria-laced batch of leftovers began several hours after I devoured what remained of our Thai salad: a few shrimp, some iceberg lettuce, cabbage, and sprouts. It tasted just as good as when we'd first eaten it, the night before. At midnight, however, my stomach began rumbling with such intensity it woke me from a dead sleep. I'll spare you the gruesome particulars, save this detail: By six the next morning I had lost so much fluid that my blood pressure plunged, leaving me unable to stand up without fainting. My husband had to ...